United Nations Decade ,on Biodiversity Occaslonal Paper .No. 347 e 'e 0 0 es 0 Ind'a R. Babu, K ,.A Subramanian and Spr ya N,andy Zoolog ~ ca l Survey of nd ~ a Occasional Paper No. 347 Records of the Zoological Survey of India ENDEMIC ODONATES OF INDIA R. Babu*, K.A. Subramanian and Supriya Nandy Zoological Survey of India, New Alipur, Kolkata - 700 053 *Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai - 600 028 Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata Zoological Survey of India Kolkata ii Occasional Paper No. 347 CITATION Babu, R., Subramanian, K.A. and Supriya Nandy, 2013. Endemic Odonates of India, Rec. zool. Surv. India, Occasional Paper No. 347: 1-60 (Published by the Director, Kolkata). 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Price India f 410/­ Foreign $ 25/ - £ 20/- Published at the Publication Division, by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, M - Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053 and printed at Deep Printers, 70A, Rama Road, Industrial Area, New Delhi - 110015. Babu et al. : Endemic Odonates of India iii Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper No. 247 2013 Page 1-60 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1 2. DISCUSSION .................................................................................................................. .37 3. SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................... 39 4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................ .39 5. REFERENCE ................................................................................................................... .39 6. ADDENDUM ................................................................................................................... 49 7. PLATES ....................................................................................................................... 50-60 iv Babu et al. : Endemic Odonates ofIndia 1 INTRODUCTION Endemic species, which are restricted within a geographic region, are very important in characterization of biogeographic provinces. Areas with high degree of endemism are active places of speciation or refuges of past climatic or habitat changes. The recognition of endemic species areas is also important in conservation and management of biodiversity. Most of the endemic species have narrow geographic distribution and are more susceptible to extinction due to natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment. The endemic Odonata fauna of India is largely concentrated in four global biodiversity hotspots i.e., the Western Ghats, Western Himalaya, Indo-Burmese (includes Andaman Islands) and Sunda land (includes Nicobar Islands). Mitra (2002a) listed 205 endemic species of Odonata from India. However, many species were reported from neighbouring countries after this publication. The endemic Odonata fauna of peninsular India, including the Western Ghats is better known, including its habitat distribution and threats (Subramanian, 2007; Mitra et al., 2011; Subramanian et al., 2011). In the current study, endemic status of each species was determined mostly following the world distribution given by Tsuda (2000), also Davies and Tobin (1984, 1985) and Ushijima (2002). Distribution of each endemic species within India were summarized based on Fraser (1918-1953) and all other literature containing data from material examined by respective authors (Asahina, 1978, 1984a & b, 1986, 1994; Babu and Nandy, 2010a & b; Bose and Mitra, 1976; Emiliyamma, 2009; Emiliyamma and Radhakrishnan, 2006a, 2006b, 2007; Emiliyamma et al., 2007; Kulkarni and Talmale, 2008; Kulkarni et al., 2004, 2006a & b; Lahiri, 1976, 1977a & b, 1979, 1987; Misra, 2007; Mitra, 1995, 2002b, 2003, 2006; Mitra et al., 2006; Nandy and Babu, 2012; Prasad, 1996a & b, 2004, 2007a &b; Prasad and Mondal, 2010; Prasad and Sinha, 2010; Prasad and Varshney, 1988; Sharma and Kumar, 2008; Srivastava and Das, 1987; Srivastava and Sinha, 1993, 1995,2000,2004; Subramanian et al., 2008). In this present study, altogether 186 species and subspecies belonging to 67 genera of Odonata which are reported only from Indian territory is taken into account, investigating all the past and recent literature. SYSTEMATIC LIST OF ENDEMIC ODONATE SPECIES OF INDIA Suborder ZYGOPTERA Superfamily COENAGRIONOIDEA Family COENAGRIONIDAE 1. Aciagrion approximans (Selys, 1876) 2. Agriocnemis keralensis Peters, 1981 3. Agriocnemis pieris Laidlaw, 1919 4. Agriocnemis splendidissima Laidlaw, 1919 5. Ceriagrion coeruleum Laidlaw, 1919 6. Ceriagrion rubiae Laidlaw, 1916 7. Mortonagrion varralli Fraser, 1920 2 Occasional Paper No. 347 8. Pseudagrion andamanicum Fraser, 1924 9. Pseudagrion indicum Fraser, 1924 Family PLATYCNEMIDIDAE 10. Calicnemia pyrrhosoma Lieftinck, 1984 11. Calicnemia mukherjeei Lahiri, 1976 12. Calicnemia sudhaae Mitra, 1994 13. Coeliccia dorothea Fraser, 1933 14. Coeliccia fraseri Laidlaw, 1932 15. Coeliccia prakritiae Lahiri, 1985 16. Coeliccia rossi Asahina, 1985 17. Coeliccia sarbottama Lahiri, 1987 18. Coeliccia schmidti Asahina, 1984 19. Copera vittata deccanensis Laidlaw, 1917 Family PLATYSTICTIDAE 20. Drepanosticta annandalei Fraser, 1924 21. Platysticta deccanensis Laidlaw, 1915 22. Protosticta antelopoides Fraser, 1931 23. Protosticta damacornu Terzani and Carletti, 1998 24. Protosticta davenporti Fraser, 1931 25. Protosticta fraseri Kennedy, 1936 26. Protosticta gravelyi Laidlaw, 1915 27. Protosticta hearseyi Fraser, 1922 28. Protosticta mortoni Fraser, 1924 29. Protosticta rufostigma Kimmins, 1958 30. Protosticta sanguinostigma Fraser, 1922 Family PROTONEURIDAE 31. Caconeura gomphoides (Rambur, 1842) 32. Caconeura obscura (Fraser, 1933) 33. Caconeura ramburi (Fraser, 1922) 34. Caconeura risi (Fraser, 1931) 35. Caconeura t-coerulea (Fraser, 1933) 36. Disparoneura apicalis (Fraser, 1924) 37. Disparoneura quadrimaculata (Rambur, 1842) 38. Elattoneura atkinsoni (Selys, 1886) 39. Elattoneura campioni cacharensis (Fraser, 1933) Babu et al. : Endemic Odonates of India 3 40. Elattoneura nigerrima (Laidlaw, 1917) 41. Elattoneura nihari Mitra, 1995 42. Elattoneura souteri (Fraser, 1924) 43. Elattoneura tetrica (Laidlaw, 1917) 44. Esme cyaneovittata Fraser, 1922 45. Esme longistyla Fraser, 1931 46. Esme mudiensis Fraser, 1931 47. Melanoneura bilineata Fraser, 1922 48. Phylloneura westermanni (Selys, 1860) 49. Prodasineura vertical is andamanensis (Fraser, 1924) 50. Prodasineura vertical is annandalei (Fraser, 1921) Superfamily LESTOIDEA Family LESTIDAE 51. Indolestes assamicus Fraser, 1930 52. Indolestes pulcherrimus (Fraser, 1924) 53. Lestes garoensis Lahiri, 1987 54. Lestes nigriceps Fraser, 1924 55. Lestes patricia Fraser 1924 56. Lestes praemorsus sikkima Fraser, 1929 57. Orolestes durga Lahiri, 1987 Family MEGAPODAGRIONIDAE 58. Burmargiolestes laidlawi Lieftinck, 1960 Family SYNLESTIDAE 59. Megalestes lieftincki Lahiri, 1979 60. Megalestes raychoudhuri Lahiri, 1987 Superfamily CALOPTERYGOIDEA Family CALOPTERYGIDAE 61. Echo margarita tripartita Selys, 1879 62. Vestalis apicalis Selys, 1873 63. Vestalis submontana Fraser,1934 Family CHLOROCYPHIDAE 64. Calocypha laidlawi (Fraser, 1924) 65. Libellago andamanensis (Fraser, 1924) 66. Libellago blanda (Selys, 1853) 67. Libellago balus Hamalainen, 2002 4 Occasional Paper No. 347 68. Rhinocypha bisignata Selys, 1853 69. Rhinocypha hilaryae miaoa Lahiri and Sinha, 1991 70. Rhinocypha perforata beatifica Fraser, 1927 71. Rhinocypha vitrinella Fraser, 1935 Family EUPHAEIDAE 72. Anisopleura lieftincki Prasad and Ghosh, 1984 73. Anisopleura subplatystyla Fraser, 1927 74. Anisopleura vallei St. Quentin, 1937 75. Bayadera chittaranjani Lahiri, 2003 76. Bayadera kali Cowley, 1936 77. Dysphaea ethela Fraser, 1924 78. Euphaea cardinal is (Fraser, 1924) 79. Euphaea dispar Rambur, 1842 80. Euphaea fraseri (Laidlaw, 1920) Suborder ANISOPTERA Superfamily AESHNOIDEA Family GOMPHIDAE 81. Acrogomphus fraseri Laidlaw, 1925 82. Anormogomphus heteropterus Selys, 1854 83. Asiagomphus nilgiricus (Laidlaw, 1922) 84. Asiagomphus o'doneli (Fraser, 1922) 85. Burmagomphus cauvericus Fraser, 1926 86. Burmagomphus laidlawi Fraser, 1924 87. Burmagomphus sivalikensis Laidlaw, 1922 88. Cyclogomphus heterostylus Selys, 1854 89. Cyclogomphus vesiculosus Selys, 1873 90. Cyclogomphus wilkinsi Fraser, 1926 91. Cyclogomphus ypsilon Selys, 1854 92. Davidioides martini Fraser, 1924 93. Davidius aberrans schmidi Asahina, 1994 94. Davidius aberrans senchalensis Fraser, 1926 95. Davidius kumaonensis Fraser, 1926 96. Davidius malloryi Fraser, 1926 97. Dubitogomphus bidentatus Fraser, 1930 98. Gomphidia fletcheri Fraser, 1923 99. Gomphidia ganeshi Chhotani, Lahiri and Mitra, 1983 Babu